Sightings Archive

Firsby Res: Mallard - 10 - 5 Pair. ; Tawny Owl - 1 - Calling at dawn. ; 319 - 1 ; Jay - 2 ; Magpie - 25+ - Emerging from roost in willows. ; Song Thrush - 1 ; Blackbird - 10+ ; Redwing - 2+ - Over calling in dark. ; Woodcock - 1 - near stream. ; Skylark - 1 ; Treecreeper - 1 ; Bullfinch - 7 ; Goldfinch - 6 - garden hedge. ; Siskin - 10+ ; Grey Wagtail - 1 - On sluice.

Forge Dam: Mandarin - 2 - pair on dam

Froggatt: 319 - 4

Green Moor: Brambling - 5

Kiveton Community Woodland: Snipe - 7 - in adjacent field ; Water Rail - 2 ; Green Woodpecker - 1

Millhouses: Blackcap - 1 - Male in a Marriott Road garden.

Nether Haugh; Cortworth Lane: Kestrel - 1 - male, hunting over road-edge

Orgreave Lakes: Glaucous Gull - 1 - juv at c10:15 ; Glaucous Gull - 1 - After disappearing for half an hour, the juv returned to the main lake. Still present at 12:15 ; Glaucous Gull - 1 - Juv ; Glaucous Gull - 1 - Juv ; Glaucous Gull - 1 - Juv from 10:15 ; Willow Tit - 1 - On feeders

Oughtibridge garden: Brambling - 11 ; Siskin - 2

R Derwent, Calver Mill: Mandarin - 31m, 6f ; 321 - 1

Ravenfield Park: Tufted Duck - 1 - Male. ; Little Grebe - 1 - Uncommon here. ; Mute Swan - 2 - Pair. ; Goldcrest - 2 ; Bullfinch - 4 ; Lesser Redpoll - 30+ - Feeding in treetops. ; Siskin - 5+ - With Redpoll

Rotherham; Northfield: Common Buzzard - 2 - soaring over @ 0950hrs

RVCP, Main Lake: Goldeneye - 1 - just one drake ; Goosander - 15 - including pair copulating ; Egyptian Goose - 2 - pair on lawns, female metal ringed, ringed at RVCP in Sept 2017. ; Red-crested Pochard - 1 - female on island ; Little Egret - 1 - on island ; Redshank - 1 ; Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 - adults

Scholes Coppice: Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 - Drumming and calls ; Robin - 1+ - singing ; Blackbird - 1+ ; Goldcrest - 1 - singing nr bell pits. ; Long-tailed Tit - 1+ ; Blue Tit - 1+ ; Great Tit - 1+ - singing ; Nuthatch - 1+ - calls ; Chaffinch - 1+ ; Brambling - 40+ - Feeding beneath beech trees in SW corner of wood. ; Goldfinch - 1+

Thrybergh CP: Great Crested Grebe - 18 - 1pr showing interest in old nest site ; Little Grebe - 6 ; Cormorant - 6 ; Grey Heron - 1 - imm ; Pink-footed Goose - 40+ - NW @ 08:20 ; Greylag Goose - 80+ ; Canada Goose - 60+ ; Gadwall - 2 ; Pochard - 9 ; Tufted Duck - 32 ; Water Rail - 1 ; Moorhen - 12 ; Coot - 80+ ; Lapwing - 100 ; Black-headed Gull - 100+ ; Herring Gull - 11 - inc.10 north ; Skylark - 1 - singing ; Fieldfare - 10 ; Long-tailed Tit - 6 - 3pr ; Brambling - 8+

Whiteley Woods: Ring-necked Parakeet - 2 - Over woodland E of Forge Dam

Wingfield School: Black-headed Gull - c50 ; Jackdaw - c10 ; Rook - c20

Wyming Brook: Crossbill - 8

Aldwarke: Peregrine - 2 - Pair, hunting Pigeon flock with success, over Liberty melting shop. 08:25

Bole Hill, Treeton: Common Buzzard - 1 - bird with damaged right wing, over plantation

Bolehill Flash: Redwing - 7 ; Reed Bunting - 7+ - inc one singing ; Chaffinch - 1 - singing ; Bullfinch - 1 ; Great Tit - 02-Mar - singing ; Greenfinch - 1 - over ; Blue Tit - present - very active, inc small parties chasing & song ; Herring Gull - 17 - W/SW ; Great Black-backed Gull - 1 - adult, W/SW ; Cormorant - 2 - W/SW ; Tree Sparrow - 2+ ; Jack Snipe - 1 - flushed from side of path at dawn ; BEARDED TIT - 1pr - calling close to path @ 0800hrs & 0852hrs; pair flew S across path & briefly in reeds @ 0830hrs ; Goose sp - c65 - low to NE onto Treeton Meadows at dawn; mostly CG but possibly a few GJ admixed